Tag: Europe

  • Exposed

    I have a great vantage point to work from today as I’m perched by the glass doors of The Tate Modern, on l
    London’s South Bank. I have plugged in to the Tate’s electric supply, am wired into the net via my 3uk mobile dongle and have managed to be disciplined enough to do an afternoons work.

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  • The World Cup

    One of the handy things about being a Cyber Gypsy is that I get a chance to watch whatever world cup game I wish.  This can be distracting if I’m trying to work at the same time and beer can be very distracting. For days. Caution recommended. (more…)

  • Spring in Old Blighty

    I can’t believe it’s only 2 months since I arrived back in the UK. So much has happened.

    Having arrived back in February I was actually quite pleased to be met by some chilly weather after the heat of India. The first few days back home were the kind of clear blue sky chill that strengthens resolve, the kind of weather that Rocky would have trained in, that captain oats would have taken a cheerful last walk in perhaps. (more…)

  • Departure to Nepal

    England was starting to get to that damp time of year that used to be the cause of a fella’s consumption. Not of the alcohol variety, the kind of consumption that ate at the lungs causing people to head somewhere drier, or take a few years off by going on ‘The Grand Tour’.
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  • Cyber YHA

    Not the YMCA, I never really understood what

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  • May in a brightly crisp Blighty

    There’s one thing I noticed about Cornwall is that the light is brighter. I thought it was my imagination until I was enlightened by a wonderful German fella called Chris who happens to be a photographer.

    Chris said it’s because Cornwall is surrounded by sea, the water reflects light back at all angles in a way that you get such vivid light on the Greek islands, so whites are really white and blues radiate vibrancy. It also lifts the spirits but without you really knowing why, it’s just brighter.

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  • Burnt Out

    What amazes me about the car in this picture is how little of it is left after being burnt out, and how (more…)

  • The Perfect Spring Day

    Paris is gloriously sunny this weekend so I updated a few websites this morning, then headed up (more…)

  • Springtime in Paris

    When I found my seat on the Eurostar I found a family of four were occupying all of the four seats in a cluster including mine. What happens is that one kid goes free so the train company just doesn’t give them a seat, no wonder people stop breeding. I felt so guilty about turfing a kid out of my seat that I went and sat in one of the corridor seats near the luggage. This inspired people to come and visit their baggage at regular intervals as a loitering fellow in the luggage bays is a sure sign of mischief.

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  • Parrots in Streatham

    I was missing the tropics so much that Streatham decided to chuck in a few parrots and voila, pretty polly here flew up into the branches above my head just by the Drewstead Road entrance to Tooting Common.

    Apparently there are oodles of the critters around, I just don’t look up enough.

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